access other hard drives in ubuntu server 14.04.1

[evan20]

Hello, I'm very new to linux, I've just built a pc to use as a media server. I have 3 HDD's, 1 will be used for just the OS and primary files, the other 2 will be used for media storage.
How can I access the other HDD's to create folders and add files etc.

Thanks.

[nilla78ro]

Hello,
you can find everything here :
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...gANewHardDrive
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Au...ountPartitions

[evan20]

already read through them, no help. All I need is a command to get from the main HDD that root is on, to the other HDD that will store the media.

[Bashing-om]

evan20; Hi !

To access files on the other hard drives one must first attach the file system to "root". This is done by making up a mount point; for instance:

sudo mkdir /mnt/test

now through that 'mount point' we mount a file system .. say there is a partition number 1 on the 2nd hard drive, and the file system on this sdb1 is ubuntu's ext4; then one does a number like so:

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/test

OK ! now you have the file system attached and are able to manipulate the files on sdb1. To look:

ls -al /mnt/test
ls -al /mnt/test/<some_directory>

one mount point to a destination at a time .. make as many mount points as one needs if opening other file systems.

When done, MUST UN-mount what you manually mounted - failure to do so will result in file system corruption at some level:

sudo umount /mnt/test

hope that helps

[evan20]

Brilliant, thanks so much.

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